Category: Chapter News and Events

Monday, November 4, 2019 American Keg Company is a stainless steel keg manufacturer located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA.  Our American craftsmen manufacture the highest quality 1/2 bbl (15.5 US gallons or 165 12-oz. pours) and 1/6 bbl kegs (5.16 U.S. gallons or 55 12-oz. pours), with pride, for the American Craft Brewer, Cider Maker, and…

presented by Maritime Historian CHRISTIAN RODEN An event hosted by Society for Industrial Archeology – Oliver Evans Chapter together with Delaware Valley Chapter of Steamship Historical Society of America and Independence Seaport Museum  Christian Roden was a Fulbright scholar who spent a year doing research at the French Line archives in LeHavre, France focusing on…

PROGRAM, ANNUAL MEETING & PICNIC Monday, June 24, 2019 Please join our Chapter for the Picnic this coming Monday.  E-mail Helen, treasurer, with your intention at hschenck@princeton.edu  so that we can order enough food. Full information on the website: https://siaoliverevans.wordpress.com/category/chapter-news-and-events/  

Monday, June 24, 2019 Adventures in Steam Locomotion A school teacher by day, in his free time Tom Gears is a steam locomotive engineer at Wilmington & Western RR in Delaware and has been working with steam-powered equipment since 1981. For the last 15 years he’s been all over the world chasing down the last…

DATE: Thursday, May 23, 2019 TIME: Optional Lunch – Noon       Tour – 1:30PM LOCATION: Optional Lunch – Mastoris diner, 144 Rt. 130, Bordentown, NJ                         Tour: IRP Co. – 300 Bordentown-Hedding Rd., Bordentown, NJ  The Independent Record Pressing Co. presses 12-inch vinyl records in…

Society for Industrial Archeology OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER are invited as guests of the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center Reception, Exhibition and Film Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019 Time: 5:00PM – 6:30PM Join us for a reception for the current Bicentennial exhibition about the Manayunk and Fairmount Canals, curated by Sandy Sorlien of the FWWIC. Enjoy…

Monday, April 8, 2019 speakers and authors Harry Kyriakodis and Joel Spivak Philadelphia’s relationship with the underground is as old as the city itself, dating back to when Quaker settlers resided in caves alongside the Delaware River more than three hundred years ago. The City of Brotherly Love later became a national and world leader…

In case you missed earlier postings from this website and from the secretary, the annual dinner is scheduled for this coming Saturday, February 2nd. The date for extension of reservations is this Thursday, January 31st. Sorry this information wasn’t included in recent postings.

All entrees will be served buffet style. Selections may be made as you choose. Garden salad, Honey soy glazed salmon, Gallo’s lump crab cakes,  Chicken marsala, Penne with pancetta and tomato vodka cream sauce, garlic & herb roasted potatoes, fresh vegetables, warm apple cobbler & vanilla ice cream, tea, coffee. COST: $35 per person. Send…

Saturday, February 2, 2019 Philadelphia and the Birth of Airmail An Illustrated Lecture by Fred Moore, Historian, Northeast Philadelphia History Network With American forces still fighting in World War I, the famous U S Army Air Service Curtiss “Jenny” trainer planes were assigned to a new mission: Deliver the mail on a regular schedule between…